The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-07-20
MISSING LINKS.

A bed of alum has been found near
the Longfellow incline, on the Colorado
Railroad, Arizona.
Somebody asks: ''What should sol
der write aboutP" Right about face,
of course.-PittSbatrg Chronicle.
The yield of gold in Australia last
year amounted to 7S4,00 ounces, being
small increase over that of the preced-
ing year.
Governor Jeremiah NJ Rusk, is self
made model American, who began life
rs q stage driver and has driven up hill
TO the executive chair.
Captain j. j. Nunan, of Stockton,
Cal, has rose bush III his garden that
bore rose fifteen and one-seventh
inches in circumference.
The night he introduced the Home
Rule measure Mr.. Gladstone wore rose
and shamrocks in his buttonhole. The
shamrocks were the gift OF Mr.. Parnell.
A novelty in horticulture in California
is the successful grating of Italian
chestnuts on the ordinary black oak. 1t
has been practiced with the best results
in number of instances in the Napa
Valley.
Suburban property is increasing in
value rapidly in Washington, and the
town is gradually crawling up on the
hills. Houses worth $4,000, $4,000,
$4,000 and upward are being built in
the suburbs.
Some of the English Tory papers are
amusing their readers by showing that
Mr.. Gladstone is the "beast' OF the
Apocalypse, because the letters of his
name in Greek foot up SOC, the number
of the "beast."
A school bill has been passed by the
Legislature of Kentucky for levying
school taxes. One clause says: ANY
widow, spinster and alien, who is n tax
payer, and has children of school age,
shall be qualified to vote"
Secretary Endicott and all the surviv-
ing descendants of the original Endi-
colt who came over in the Mayilower
are now honored by the remaining of
Ehnwood, suburban to Boston, which
henceforth will be known as Endicott.
A miner of Bodie, Cal, has dog
which is constantly wandering about in
a gold mine with his master The lat
ter recently gave the dog q thorough
washing, and then carefully banned out
the muddy water. The dog assayed
S23.17 in fine gold.
A barbarous case of eviction lately
happened ut Linlithgow, Scotland. Miss
Eliza Milne, teacher of the Douglas Cot
tage School, was elected from her house,
and her bedridden mother, Sc years of
age, was removed from her bed and
placed on an easy-chair on the wayside.
She lay there for two hours and then ex-
pired.
The paid base ball players through
out the country number 1000, and draw
annual salaries aggregating about $780,
900. If TO this sum were added the eX-
pense of sustaining grounds. the salaries
of managers. gate keepers, ticket sellers
and others, the total would probably
reach more than S1,000,000.
Crow hunting among Georgia plant
ers is thus described by one of the hunt
ers: Catch one of the birds, tie it to
your body and walk through the field
with your gun cooked and finger on the
trigger The cries of the bird will cause
others of its tribe to flock around you,
and they can then be easily shot.
"West Indian dysentery" is due to a
mild dose of powdered glass delivered to
an enemy in his food by the West India
negroes. II the doses are continued
death is the result. Bottles filled with
ground glass and water are used for
charms. One of them hung under a
tree in an orchard is almost sure to keep
the negroes away from the fruit. as they
believe that the charm poisons it.
1t appears from recent book on sea
legends that there are many ways to
raise the wind. You may suspend he
goat skin nj the masthead, you may ilog
q boy at the mast, you may burn a
broom and let the handle turn toward
the desired quarter. YOU may blow out
to sea the dust from the chapel floor,
you may stick knife in the mizzenmast
or scratch the foremost with nail, and
so on.
Panoramic photographs in connection
with military surveying and the like
are now taken l;v n simple French in
strument called the cylindrograph. 4
semi-circular cylinder, having small
ltnS Ill lllc CcllcI IlONCo Oh du tNls,
and is provided with dark slide of
some material that bends without break
ing. When view is TO bc taken the
lens is moved from one side of the land
scape to the other.
A Chinese block is engraved on a
hard native wood with close cram.
cut in different direction to the box
wood prepared for English engravers.
The Chinese printer inks the block with
n brush-the ink being n suitable COM
pound largely composed of India ink.
To secure an impression soft paper is
laid on the block. and n dry brush is
passed over the back of the paper. which
is printed on one side only.
A mining engineer wants mining
companies to be compelled by law to
put down bore holes, from the surface OF
the ground, at greater or less intervals
over the entire course of mines. The
holes would not be very expensive to
put down, and could be sunk with any
prospecting well or oil rig. They should
be large enough TO contain tube two
or three inches in diameter, with good
valves at each end. This plan, he thinks,
would do away with part of the risk